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What are some classics/books known to be of literary quality that you ACTUALLY liked? I’m interested to know if anybody actually enjoys anything they’ve read in school… like, ever
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Anonymous 12w

Pride and prejudice, 1984

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Anonymous 12w

Frankenstein, Giovanni’s Room, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet are the only ones that come to mind

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Anonymous 12w

The Things They Carried, Jane Eyre, anything by Austen, Les Mis, Count of Monte Cristo, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Little Women, If Beale Street Could Talk, Their Eyes Were Watching God, To Kill a Mockingbird (until I had to read it for school), Animal Farm (though they didn’t really explain the totalitarianism part in 7th grade when we read it)

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Anonymous 12w

brave new world

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Anonymous 12w

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the Kite Runner. They’re more recent but damn they good.

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Anonymous 12w

Pride and Prejudice and Dracula for ones I read for school but I also like Little Women, Rose in Bloom, the Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables (I’ve read them all), Heidi, etc

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Anonymous 12w

Slaughterhouse 5!

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Anonymous 12w

I didnt read them in school but I love The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. My favorite book that I've read for a class was The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir, its nonfiction though

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Anonymous 12w

Omg thank you guys!! I have such a long list now 😍

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Anonymous 12w

catch-22, frankenstein, anything by pynchon, the grapes of wrath, breakfast at tiffany's, one hundred years of solitude, a portrait of the artist as a young man, slaughterhouse five

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Anonymous 12w

legitimately enjoyed - candide - moby dick - epic of gilgamesh - dracula - the táin

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Anonymous 12w

Frankenstein, I love that book with my whole heart. However brave new world and the little Prince are honorable mentions

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Anonymous 12w

Fahrenheit 451 The Chrysalids The Last Unicorn A Separate Peace The Iliad Beowulf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Anonymous 12w

The kite runner, the awakening, and the book thief were all enjoyable

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12w

And lowkey anything else Jane Austen

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 12w

Things Fall Apart, Up The Walls of the World, If Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), Americanah (these, Dostoevsky, TTTC, and TEWWG are the only of these I had to read for school) Also Bleak House (haven’t liked any other dickens so far tho) and Middlemarch (haven’t read any other Eliot yet tho)

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 12w

Little women is amazing I read it so many times as a kid. I would also second animal farm that one was crazy

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 12w

Oh and Lord of the Rings, literally so iconic and one of my favorite series

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 12w

LeGuin and Butler >>>>>>>

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 12w

Wait! The autobiography of Malcolm x! That one changed me as a person

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 12w

Wait but I feel like totalitarianism is like the entire plot of animal farm, so what did you think was going on instead? Haha, sorry to bother but I’m just kinda curious lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12w

Well I didn’t really know about totalitarianism in seventh grade as a concept lol so when we read it, we learned about the Russian revolution concurrently so I knew that one of the animals was like Trotsky or whatever but they never fully connected the dots so I was just kind of like “okay napoleon is evil”

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 12w

Yea I suppose that’s valid. On the other hand I watched the movie in my 9th grade history class as wel learned about totalitarianism which I feel like might be a better use of animal farm as opposed to teaching it to kids who don’t understand it lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 12w

I can vouch for this! Had to read it for my UGS. Very poignant and opinionated in a good way. Many misunderstand the man

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